United States v. Norman Weir

How courts have described this case

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• declining to apply the waiver rule when the district court “clearly understood the [party’s] position and specifically rejected it”
• declining to apply the waiver rule when the district court “clearly understood the [party’s] position and specifically rejected it.”
• “[Although the commentary to section 4B1.1 states that the career offender provision is implementing the mandate of 28 U.S.C. § 994(h), it does not suggest that section 994(h) is the only mandate for that provision.”
• “common sense dictates that conspiring to distribute drugs constitutes a controlled substance offense”
• “We hold that a convic- tion of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana is a ‘controlled substance offense’ for purposes of career criminal sen- tence enhancement under section 4B1.1 of the United States Sen- tencing Guidelines.”

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